What is Dust?

Dust : The Abandoned Land is a multiplayer real-time survival roguelike that takes place in a large procedurally generated world populated with wildlife, dangerous creatures and other NPC humans (e.g. other survivors, military, bandits). You, a regular citizen, and like all the other survivors, need to sleep, eat, drink, fight for survival, but also trust the right people and help each others.

After four years of development, I am releasing the first version of “Dust : The Abandoned Land”. Dust is a multiplayer real-time roguelike where you try to survive in a post apocalyptic world filled with oversized insects. To do so, you will have to fight creatures and other survivors, and create/integrate/manage alliances.

Dust, like Build&Defend before it, started as an experiment on few new gameplay ideas. This includes for example the creatures/humans who are only aware of what they can see/hear (I mentioned this on the blog). Or the relations/collaboration/fight between the creatures (including you). Dust has, I hope, a very unique gameplay “flavor”

The game takes place in a large procedurally generated world populated with wildlife, dangerous creatures and other NPC humans (e.g. other survivors, military, bandits). The terrain is entirely constructible/destructible and might feel like a sandbox (once you get strong enough weapons).

Dust is still in its early stages of development and many ideas remain to be implemented or polished (e.g. online multiplayers, specific events, locations and encounters), but as of today, the game is playable and I think entertaining.

I am concluding this post by hoping that you will enjoy discovering and playing Dust. And, at the same time, and if you feel motivated, I hope you will send me feedbacks to help me improve the game.

The game is free and is available on Window, Linux and MacOs. You can play it alone or in split-screen multiplayer (online multiplayer is still experimental). Finally, here is a trailer (100% of real gameplay) that I hope will give you the wish to play